Ecovillage Findhorn:New Frontiers for Sustainability

The Findhorn Ecovillage is a tangible demonstration of the links between the spiritual, social, ecological and economic aspects of life and is a synthesis of some of the very best of current thinking on human habitats. It is a constantly evolving model used as a teaching resource by a number of university and school groups as well as by professional organisations and municipalities worldwide.

We are a founder member of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), a non-profit organisation that links together a highly diverse worldwide movement of autonomous ecovillages and the headquarters of Gaia Education, provider of sustainability education in 42 countries promoting thriving communities within planetary boundaries.

The Findhorn Foundation Ecovillage Project has received Best Practice designation from the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat).

The Findhorn Ecovillage

is at the heart of the largest single intentional community in the UKis a pioneering ecovillage that evolved at The Park from 1985is a major centre for holistic learning serving thousands of visitors each year from around the worldhas an ecological footprint that is around half the national (UK) averagefeatures more than 100 ecologically-benign buildingssupplies energy from four wind turbinesboasts a biological Living Machine waste water treatment systeminstalled a 250kW biomass boiler in 2010 to serve the central Park area, reducing carbon emissions by around 80 tons a yearincludes numerous solar water heating systemsis part of a comprehensive recycling systemis the publisher of the UK’s first technical guide to ecological housinghas a share-issuing community co-operative and a local currencyis served by a car-sharing club that includes zero-emissions electric vehicles